This project aims to study the evolution of practices and populations facing death in antiquity on an international scale (from the Metal Ages to the Greco-Roman contexts).
Projects
This multidisciplinary research program, directed by A. Schmitt (CNRS, UMR 5140 ASM), funded by the LabEx Archimede of the University of Montpellier, and with which E. Anstett, proposes to reference and order the practices that leave certain deceased persons without a funeral or burial (https://archeomort.hypotheses.org/). It is conceived as a prefigurative program for more extensive research, and will result in a collective publication to be published in 2023 by ArcheoPress and OpenAccess.
Funded by the AMU interdisciplinary mission, this program is co-piloted by the historian A. Carol (AMU, Telemme) and E. Anstett (CNRS, ADES). Backed by a research seminar organized around a series of thematic study days, this program proposes to engage in interdisciplinary reflection on the mortuary fact, by questioning more particularly its ordinary or extraordinary modalities, its most recent evolutions (notably in a context of crisis), and its various issues (https://necrolog.hypotheses.org/a-propos-du-seminaire-histoire-et-anthropologie-de-la-mort-amu).
This project is led by Julie Di Cristofaro (PhD, HDR, CR EFS), Christophe Picard, (MD, PhD, HDR, EFS) and Pascal Pedini (PharmD, PhD, EFS), it benefits from many collaborations, including that with the team of Pr Pascal Chanez (APHM, INSERM, C2VN).
Based on the data from the previous project, the main objective of this project is to define the biomarkers particularly involved in the phenomena of tolerance, inflammation and rejection in order to improve the diagnostic and therapeutic management of transfused, grafted or transplanted patients as well as their donor selection.
The immunological safety of transfusions is based, among other things, on the compatibility of erythrocyte blood groups. Today there are about 380 different antigens in 44 systems. More than half of them are considered rare, i.e. their frequency in the general population is less than 4/1000.